| Greet the audience
| • Good morning (afternoon), everyone…
• I’m pleased that so many of you were able to make it this morning.
• Thank you all for coming…
• It is nice to see you all here today…
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| Introduce yourself
| •I would like to introduce myself to those who don’t know me, I’m …
• Let me introduce myself. My name is…
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| State the purpose of your presentation
| •The title of my report is…
•Today I’m going to talk about…
• The subject of this presentation is…
• My topic today is going to be…
• This presentation will consider…
• The aim of my presentation is to …
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| State how your presentation is to be structured
| •In particular there are 4 main ideas which I wish to draw your attention to this afternoon
•I will start by arguing that…
• Secondly I’m going to explain…
• My third point is that…
• Lastly, I want to show…
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| Main points
1) Introduced
2) Stated
3) Summed up
| • I will commence with the most important argument…
• One of the points I would like to make is..
• Following this I want to go on…
• The last point I want to examine is that…
• For example/ For instance…
• Let’s take X as an example..
• So, I have explained…just to remind you then of that point…
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| Use the following phrases to comment on your tables/graphs
| • Let me show you some pictures/one of the diagrams/charts to illustrate this statement.
• Let’s have a look at…
• I’d like to illustrate/demonstrate..
• This picture/figure/table shows…
•As you can see in the picture/figure/table..
• I suggest you some charts/diagrams describing…
• As it is seen from the diagrams…
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| You may use the following words and phrases through all your presentation
| • due to/thanks to/with the help of/because of…
• besides/also/as well as
• further on/then..
• further more/moreover
• thus
• having taken into account/ taking into account (the fact that/these data)
• The main problem was that…/The problem is that…
• It’s interesting/noticeable/remarkable that…
• It goes without saying…
• I’d like to focus your attention to/pay special attention to the fact that…
• Considerable attention is devoted to…
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| Make a conclusion
| •So, that concludes my point about…
• To sum up, I have explained my main ideas…
• To conclude this presentation, I’d just like to emphasize the main points again.
• In the conclusion…
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| Invite the audience to ask you questions
If the question is out of the scope of your
research paper or you haven’t investigated this problem, you might use these phrases
| •Thank you all for your attention, are there any questions?
• That concludes my presentation, are there any questions?
• That’s all I wish to say, thanks for listening and I’d be happy to answer any questions.
• That is the end of my presentation. I should be grateful for your ideas and comments. I thank you for your attention.
• I’m afraid, I couldn’t answer it now, as … it requires additional time/efforts.
• I’m just planning to continue…in this direction.
• I’m just a beginner in this sphere of…
• Unfortunately, it’s out of the scope of this investigation.
●Sorry, I’m not sure I understand the question. Could you paraphrase it, please?
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